Sociological Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociological Review is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities38
The familiar strange of sociological fiction37
Owing the daughter-in-law: Bridewealth and the dynamics of intergenerational care in rural China36
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?36
Neoliberal multiculturalism and ethnic entrepreneurial self: A transnational perspective on ethnicity in China29
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting27
Framing optimism sociologically: Temporal complexity, collective affect, and cultures of optimism25
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 202222
Digital hate, health and safety, and the labour politics of public academia: ‘Universities don’t value this sort of work at all’21
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies20
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen20
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach19
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste19
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway19
Dystopian fiction, postcolonialism and non-human biography: Sociological speculatives and crisis complexity18
Who counts in poverty research?18
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care18
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes18
Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous and feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto17
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop16
War frames and societal transformations in Ukraine: Reframing a wartime nation16
Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing: Probing unfree labour from the perspective of social reproduction15
Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna15
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’15
Navigating cultural intimacies: Long-lasting friendships in the Scottish South Asian diasporas15
Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India15
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey14
Not coming out as affective care: LGBTQ+ individuals navigating the feeling landscape of intergenerational relationships14
From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family14
Creating a safer space: Being safe and doing safety in queer and feminist punk scenes*14
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community14
The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments13
Higher education and social recognition: On the moral dimension of pupils’ aspirations and choices in Chile13
Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’13
Foot notes: Retracing the steps towards diagnosis12
Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: The roots and conjuncture of Live Methods12
Racialised mobilities in China12
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice )12
Family strains, negative emotions and juvenile delinquency12
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal12
An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism12
Doing a favour or doing one’s job? A relational work perspective on precarious commitment in the digital games industry12
Children’s food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China12
The private life approach to the rise of neo-familism in China12
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence12
Some stories, more scenes11
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’11
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies11
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda11
Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain11
What’s love got to do with it? Live methods and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention11
Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives11
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)10
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research10
Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances10
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’10
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum9
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism9
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk9
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map9
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis9
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload9
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s9
Fiction in Goffman9
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities9
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK9
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem8
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure8
Feminist expertise and the political work of building alternative futures8
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism8
Dark waters, dark waters8
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture8
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID8
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic8
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy8
Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England8
Sociologically unspeakable? The ethics of ethnography and live methods8
The lines of descent of the present crisis8
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement8
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal8
Countering anti-Asian violence in a Parisian banlieue: Defensive familism7
War frames: Insights from Eastern Europe and East Asia7
Queering Southern Italy: Towards a conceptualisation of ‘Meridian Sexualities’7
The politics of the urban green: Class, morality and attachments to place7
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement7
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future7
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’7
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–19407
Theorizing autonomy in the platform economy: A study of food delivery gig workers in Latvia7
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’7
Organising for Change one year later – Response to the critics7
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK7
Disjunctive writing in the urban skinscape: Bodies, borders and the physiology of attention in a Rio de Janeiro favela7
Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort: Body as social signum7
Research failure, crip temporalities and bipolar time in UK higher education6
Vanguard fantasies: The wealthy upper classes as politically spirited wealth elite establishment6
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state6
Citizenship and discomfort: Wearing (clothing) as an embodied act of citizenship6
The digital writing of human rights narratives: Failure, recognition, and the unruly inscriptions of database infrastructures6
Metaphors at work: The symbolic infrastructures of sociological theory6
In search of unbordered homelands: Exploring the role of music in building affective internationalist politics of solidarity6
Learning the post-Fordist feeling rules: Young women’s work orientations and negotiations of the work ethic6
Afterword: Affective histories and class transmission6
Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception: What’s the right age to know your donor relatives?6
Cultivating cultural capital and transforming cultural fields: A study with arts and disability organisations in Europe6
‘I do feel proud that almost everyone I know voted’: The emotional foundations of dutiful citizenship6
Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society6
Claiming deservingness: The durability of social security claimant discourses during the Covid-19 pandemic6
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment6
Introduction5
Career coaching and the making of the neoliberal subject in Türkiye: Bringing docility back in5
Schools as public things: Parents and the affective relations of schooling5
Straying with the Trouble: Science fiction, utopia and the anti-carceral imagination5
‘You are Danish, or you are not’: How migrants in Denmark experience class and otherness5
‘We are forever traumatized’ – Aseel Baidoun interviewed by Cairsti Russell5
By, for, with women? On the politics and potentialities of wellness entrepreneurship5
Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices: A critical appraisal5
Time structures in ethnomethodological and conversation analysis studies of practical activity5
Corrigendum5
The ‘where’ of EU social science collaborations: How epistemic inequalities and geopolitical power asymmetries persist in research about Europe5
Dirt, decency and the symbolic boundaries of caregiving in residential homes for older people5
Fear and loathing in north London: Experiencing estate regeneration as psychosocial degeneration5
An ontological turn in the sociology of personal life: Tracing facet methodology’s connective ontology4
De-communalising the hot pot: Chinese cuisine in Australia during COVID-194
Explosive legacies: Gaza and colonial aphasia4
Frictional rhythms of climate work in city governance4
Sociography of a curious object: Descriptive research, the #OneLess refill pilot, and practices of hesitation4
The (in)visibility of sewage management and problematization as strategy for public awareness4
Ambivalent pleasures: Towards narcofeminist alterlife4
The Russian Revolution and photography: The tragic paradoxes of canonisation4
Deconstructing giftedness: A relational analysis of the make-up of talent in theatrical dance4
‘Clean communication’: Felt-sense methodologies and the reflexive researcher in equine-assisted personal development4
Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination4
Expanding the ‘Third Space’ between Western and non-Western knowledge: Nakane Chie’s Japanese Society as anti-Eurocentric theory4
Towards an empirically robust theory of stigma resistance in the ‘new’ sociology of stigma: Everyday resistance in sheltered workshops4
Present feelings, feeling present: Liveness in research on time and feeling during the Covid-19 pandemic4
Algorithmic control and resistance in the gig economy: A case of Uber drivers in Dhaka4
The price of the ticket revised: Family members’ experiences of upward social mobility4
Grieving academic grant rejections: Examining funding failure and experiences of loss4
Intergenerational living arrangements and older parents’ happiness in China: The role of family social capital4
Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Doing community in social distancing times: Faith, sociality and new embodied practices during the Covid-19 pandemic4
W. E. B. Du Bois’s forgotten sociology of morality: Contesting the foundations and informing the future of the sociology of morality4
Bordering through unchilding: The case of Britain’s child migrants4
Cultural repertoires of school choice: Intersections of class, race and culture in Pretoria and Amsterdam4
A sociological approach to Japan’s war frames and security threats4
Making the left behind as a subject of crisis3
Live methods and live things: Cultivating attentiveness to dormant things to develop a vital sociology of the everyday3
Family and queer temporality among Chinese young gay men: Yes, but not yet3
Class Mistreatment in Elite Settings: Upward Mobility and Cross-class Interactions3
Figuring out fairness: The social construction of inheritance entitlements in close relationships3
The crisis of social reproduction and therapeutic self-care3
Power relations and persistent low fertility among domestic workers in Latin America3
Narcofeminism and its multiples: From activism to everyday minoritarian worldbuilding3
Situating class in workplace and community environmentalism: Working-class environmentalism and deindustrialisation in Porto Marghera, Venice3
Fly-tipping and the sociology of abandonment3
Fiscal environmentalism: Carbon arithmetic, objects of taxation, and the epistemic culture of economic expertise3
Hospitality work and the sociality of affective labour3
Scaffolding collective hope and agency in youth activist groups: ‘I get hope through action’3
The ‘good story’ and kindness Twitter: Tales of hope and fears of dupery during Covid-193
Therapeutic politics and the institutionalisation of dignity: ‘Treated like the Queen’3
Bureaucracy and patrimonialism on Wall Street: How organizational forms contribute to elite reproduction3
Affective labour, blurred work–leisure boundaries, and intensity of exploitation in the hospitality sector3
The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings3
Towards a renewed conceptualization of the war–society nexus: From events to frames3
Intergenerational relations: Paradoxical integration of feelings, opportunities and issues3
Non-identity accounts: Personal myths, cultural scripts and narrative alignment3
Doing youth participatory action research (YPAR) with Bourdieu: An invitation to reflexive (participatory) sociology3
Slick and smooth: The role of petro-products in making and maintaining ‘femininity’ in the beauty salon3
The spiritual turn and the disenchantment of the world: Max Weber, Peter Berger and the religion–science conflict3
The uses of poetry3
Cooking up change: Food practices and class trajectories across the life course3
Feminisation, governance and Roma on the urban margins3
Sociography: Writing Differently3
Technologies of abjection: The possessive logics and performative sovereignty of drug dog operations in New South Wales, Australia3
In search of a Tawney Moment: Income inequality, financial crisis and the mass media in the UK and the USA2
(Re)connecting anti-racisms: Islamophobia and the politics of police/prison abolition in contemporary Britain2
Strategic naturalizing in the Anthropocene: Managing cells, bodies and ecosystems2
Cards against gamification: Using a role-playing game to tell alternative futures in the gig economy2
‘Methods was always a place where sociology happens’: Revisiting Live Methods with Les Back and Nirmal Puwar2
Budgets and biologicals: The bio-economization of HIV governance2
Dissonant intimacies: Coloniality and the failures of South–South collaboration2
Aurality of images in graphic ethnographies: Sexual violence during wars and memories of the feelings of fear2
The future of data ownership: An uncommon research agenda2
Indigenous urbanisation and the decolonial possibilities of internal diasporas2
Love in the space–time of inequality: Attachment and detachment across unequal lives2
Queer milestones: Intergenerational relations and youth transitions of Chinese queer female students residing overseas2
Rendering, waste disposal and the production of value2
Contested delegation: Understanding critical public responses to algorithmic decision-making in the UK and Australia2
Framing stigma as an avoidable social harm that widens inequality2
Cultural capital, standardised testing and East Asian education: The transposition of disposition of Taiwanese elite students2
Movement meaning of money: Monetary mobilization in Hong Kong’s prodemocracy movement2
Of parvenus, priests and prophets: An exploration of transformations of (some) economists and their subject2
Beyond recognition: Identification and disidentification in visual resistance to stigma2
Masculinity, humour and the making of maritime infrastructure: An ethnography aboard an icebreaker2
Why and how should sociologists speak out on Palestine?2
Narcofeminist ‘chemsex’: Rethinking sexualised drug use in a shifting queer landscape marked by public health emergency2
Higher education and nation-building after Empire: Migrant students in post-war Britain2
Schooling citizenship and character in a therapeutic society2
Co-existing structures of feeling: Senses and imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods2
An intimacy field framework: Class, habitus and capital in gay relationships2
Sociological writing as resonant writing2
A new middle-class fraction with a distinct subjectivity: Tech workers and the transformation of the entrepreneurial self2
Homing desires: Transnational queer migrants negotiating homes and homelands in Scotland2
Paradoxes of mindfulness: The specious promises of a contemporary practice2
Difference and diversity: Combining multiculturalist and interculturalist approaches to integration2
The lonely activist: On being haunted2
The social connectedness of digital practices in later life: It’s not just about learning, it’s all about relationships2
Re-learning hope: On alienation, theory and the ‘death’ of universities2
South Korean society and the lasting legacy of the Korean War: Ideology, economy and militarization2
The endurance of whiteness in a museum2
What happens after ‘modern slavery’ rescues? A case of rescued bonded labourers in ‘waiting’ in India2
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